Just rebuilt my 1.8 zetec and ever since ive restarted it ive been getting a top end knock, sounds to me to be lifters

ive been told by some1 that this shud dissapear after the first oil change, but i dont wanna damage anything during the first 500 miles

im using 10/40 oil atm as i was advised to use non synthetic oil to allow the rings to bed in the bores, cud this be a cause? too thick an oil for the lifters to work correctly????

cheers for any help ppl, much appreciated

 

should dissapere depending weather you mixed up the lifters or not if you did you will never get it quite again as they will be worn to where they came from

 

took em out n laid em on a template, so shudnt have got mixed up

but... worst case scenario new lifters and a bed in shud sort it???

 

run it 500 and see but if its all correct should be ok after a few hours of running i just done my frontera 2.2 16v and she ratttled for about hlaf an hour i kept her running and slowly it disspareed i was a little worried at first i kept giving her the hard rev ever now and again i had one or two really nosiey ones but its all sweet now and done 800 miles and no oil change yet due to time will do it soon

 

ccol, ill see hwo it goes... altho i feel this is the least of my worries cant get her to run right either

cheers tony

 

nothing runs right after its been apart needs a while to settle in theres always small things to do good luck !

 

mind you rover 75's n k series rover engines need to be revved and then left to tickover - takes them over an hour to an hour and a half to stop ticking......

maybe its cos we need to run the revs up at around 2.5k for 30 mins or more

altho im sure we have done that...

as for the running problems - i agree things dont run that good after they have been apart....but then we are using an old set of injectors that we dont know the history of....

 

I take it you have decent oil pressure?? Did you soak the lifters in oil for a few hours before fitting them?

 

oil pressure is good phil and yes, soaked em